I've been collecting news items about the "Security State" mentality that has developed since 9/11. And now I need to unload them.

I haven't gone deeply here into corporate influence, but I do wonder how many Canadians are aware of the power behind the The Council of Chief Executives, who recently adopted a new title, for what reason I don't know because it doesn't change a thing.

I won't say more at this time except to remind you that one of the Council members, Bell Canada, still behaves as if it has a monopoly on Fibre Optics though the government, well over a year ago, said they couldn't, and activists patted themselves on the back.

​I know this because I'm one of Bell's prisoners, with only its cable pal Cogeco as an option, and my former non-profit ISP, or any other Canadian provider, such as Teksavvy, VMedia, etc., still not being allowed to share the lines at my address.

9/11 was the pivotal event that gave western secret police (a derogatory term originally applicable only to the security agencies of communist countries) much more power and an unhealthy integration with government itself. We can start off with what's been dominating news in the States, and then move into how Canada has been drifting into fascism as well.

It all began with the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in the Saudi city of Khobar, which killed 19 U.S. military, who worked at the Dharan air base three miles away.

That incident became the lynchpin of the accusation by the Saudi royal family, the U.S. State Department, and the CIA, that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism.

Just another False Flag event capitalized on as an excuse to demonize Iran. Canada came very close to upsetting that apple cart:

In 1997, the Canadians caught and extradited to America one of the [Saudi-Government-alleged] Khobar Towers attackers. In 1999, Vernon Jordan’s law firm stepped in and — poof! — the [Saudi-alleged] killer was shipped back to Saudi Arabia before he could reveal all he knew about Al Qaeda (valuable) and the Saudis (embarrassing)

And now Russia keeps getting in the way of what America/Israel/Saudi have been salivating over - it's quietly called Greater Israel.

9/11 was pivotal to this ultimate aim - easily equating Islam with terrorism and providing a cover reason to chop up the Middle East.

Condoleezza Rice could now freely announce that the US had plans to "restructure the Middle East" - "to spread freedom and democracy".

To people like Condoleezza Rice, that is the meaning of democracy: replacing an unfriendly regime with a regime that will do Washington’s bidding.

In the case of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was doing Washington’s bidding up until the U.S. government decided to turn its back on him.

It no longer seems to matter whether it's Left or Right in power. Rice is equally supportive of Obama as with Bush because the goals have remained the same. And the security forces intimidate them all (because they know all their secrets?) while controlling what the public learns from the media.

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in 1922; people were shopping and going to the movies in Berlin in 1931. Early on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere - while someone is being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: "dogs go on with their doggy life ... How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the disaster."

As for Canada, all that Canadians need in order to see no difference now between Left and Right is to familiarize themselves with the details of Bill C-51, introduced at the request of CSIS during the Harper (Right) regime and unaltered by the current Trudeau (Left) administration:

Here is a whole website devoted to exposing Canada's security system:Investigating Canada's security bias: exposing a blind eye to the far-right, the use of entrapment and torture, and systemic bigotry.

Former CSIS officer Francois Lavigne believes the measures proposed in C-51 are unnecessary, a threat to the rights of Canadians and that the PM is using fascist techniques to push the bill

...The barn burners were the off-the-leash Mounties whose law-breaking ways led to the McDonald Commission, which led to the establishment of Canadian Security Intelligence Service in 1984.

...“I find it a little convenient that in the past few years that these radicalized people are the biggest threat to ever hit us,” he said. “There are more people dying because of drunk drivers or because of gang violence.”

...“I have never seen the RCMP and CSIS have such a cosy relationship with government,” he said. “They’re not supposed to be.”

Kanji cites the $92 billion spent on national security in the decade after 9/11, the expansion of government powers in areas of surveillance with measures such as Bill C-51, and the proliferation of broad and vague offenses which can be considered ‘terrorist acts’, as examples of racism serving an institutional purpose in service of the state.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think for a while about what's behind the so-called Middle East terrorist threat. What about the convenience of ISIS helping the US in its "regime change" efforts? Think this sort of thing doesn't happen at home?

Currently, it's Trudeau being accused by the Opposition and the media of being soft on returning ISIS fighters, but let's see what happens when the far right elements of the Conservatives get into power.

There's some evidence in the media that young people have been groomed by security agents to commit terror acts, and that they almost always end up good-and-dead, lest they should blow any whistles - as this couple did. And far too many news reports reveal that a given terrorist was already known to the police.

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